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Kim Hunter
  • Birth Name:
    Janet Cole
  • Date of Birth:
    November 12, 1922
  • Zodiac Sign:
    Scorpio
  • Place of Birth:
    Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
  • Place of Death:
    New York City, New York, U.S.
  • Date of Death:
    September 11, 2002
  • Cause of Death:
    Heart attack
  • Height:
    5' 3½"
  • Sex:
    Female
  • Nationality:
    American

Family

Kim Hunter
  • Spouse:
    William Baldwin - divorced
    Robert Emmett - deceased
  • Son:
    Sean Emmett
  • Daughter:
    Kathy

Career

Kim Hunter

Trivia

Kim Hunter
  • She received two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for motion pictures at 1615 Vine Street and a second for TV at 1715 Vine Street.
  • In 1977, she appeared on the NBC western series The Oregon Trail starring Rod Taylor, in the episode The Waterhole, which also featured Lonny Chapman.
  • She also appeared in several radio and TV soap operas, most notably as Nola Madison on TV's The Edge of Night, for which she received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination in 1980 as Best Actress.
  • In 1963, she appeared as Anita Anson on the ABC medical drama Breaking Point in the episode Crack in an Image. In 1965, she appeared twice as Emily Field in the NBC TV medical series Dr. Kildare.
  • In 1962, she sppeared in the NBC medical drama The Eleventh Hour in the role of Virginia Hunter in the episode Of Roses and Nightingales and Other Lovely Things.
  • She was blacklisted from film and television in the 1950s, amid suspicions of communism in Hollywood, during the McCarthy Era.
  • She appeared in the 1951 film version, for which she won both the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture.
  • Hunter's first film role was in the film noir "The Seventh Victim" in 1943. She performed in the original Broadway production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1947), playing the role of Stella Kowalski.
  • She is an Academy and Golden Globe award winning American actress both of which are for best supporting actress.
  • Was an American film, theatre and television actress.

Filmography

Kim Hunter

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